A native of Dublin, Ireland, Brian has been working in the documentary and commercial film world in New York City for over twenty years.  After studying Engineering at Trinity College Dublin, he moved to New York in 1985 and began a career in Film and Television, working extensively as a documentary cinematographer. Brian has since proved himself as a prominent Music Video, Commercial, and Feature DP / Director.

 Brian’s commercial work includes spots for Nike, GE, Warsteiner, Mudd Jeans, Motorola, Air Canada, and WNBA with P.S.A’s  for Partnership for Drug free America and U.S. Paralympics. In '06, the faux P.S.A MarcandTom.com which caught a lot of industry attention in Shoot and Boards Magazines won a Bronze Lion at Cannes in '05. 

Music Videos include Jizz in my Pants, Lonely Island, Wu Tang Clan’s Masta killa and ODB in Old Man a collaboration with Babyface Edmonds, Wake-Up with Mary J. Blige, Wyclef Jean, Jamie Foxx and Missy Elliott. Other Videos include Crystal Method, Ours, The Heavy, Steve Earl, Midnight Youth and Boyz II Men. 

Brian has photographed many documentaries including Heroes of Ground Zero a story of two firehouses in NYC, in the days immediately following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Other clients include PBS, Discovery, National Geographic, and BBC and Channel 4 in the U.K.

Over the last 5 years Brian has completed about fifteen short films and five feature films. Conventioneers, a film about a doomed love affair between a republican and a democrat shot with the RNC New York backdrop, won the IFC 2006 John Cassevetes Award (best feature under $500k), and was an official selection at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Brian also co-produced the film.
 
2007 saw the completion of films Winter of Frozen Dreams, an indie feature with Thora Birch and Keith Carradine, and No Money with director Rania Ajami. Brian accepted the prestigious Emerging Cinematographer Award in 2007 from the ICG for a short entitled Cherry Bloom. In 2009 Brian shot a short art film with David Carradine and director Michael Maxxis titled “8 for Infinity”, which was entered in Cannes 2010. He also shot NYC's Mayor Bloomberg's re-election Campaign.

Brian is currently involved with a feature project called Echo Prime, an existential/sci-fi indie feature to be shot in Dubai with director Alex Moors, and an indie feature "Blue Caprice" also with Mr.Moors.

Brian resides in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.